the blog/wiki/website/homepage/internetpräsenz of Stefan Rinner
about
- Stefan Rinner, Mag. (FH)
- born 1979 in Tyrol and living in Vienna
Education
- studied InterMedia (a course related to design, technology and a tiny bit of marketing) at the Vorarlberg university of applied sciences from 1997 to 2001
- did an exchange semester at the Manchester metropolitan university in autumn 1999
- in his thesis code as designelement he researched the integral part interaction plays in multimedia applications and developed an application for creating interactions and movements in a max/msp style interface (http://www.rinner.st/dipl…)
- studied briefly computer science at Vienna university of technology but not with a degree focus but to broaden his knowledge in subjects that interested him, thus taking an arbitrary array of courses - the favorite of which was one on functional programming
Work (the short version)
- did cd-rom, museum and point of sales application development using director (and remembers the times when it was still called macromedia director)
- did some asp.net and c# development
- did lots of webdevelopment using helma as backend and the usual combination of tools like jquery, less, backbone
- does serious java development using libaries and tools like lucene, solr, spring and maven
- does mobile application development - mainly iOS, some html5 and a bit of very basic tweaking of android apps
- does some sysops jobs he doesn't enjoy that much but that have to be done anyway - linux, apache, amazon web services
- knows about usability and design in general and the intrinsic differences of style and model of thought between current mobile platforms
Work (the long version)
- developed cd-roms at infowerkstatt in Schwaz for clients like Swarovski, Tyrolit, BFI and Tiroler Tageszeitung
- developed interactive museum/point of sales applications at nofrontiere in Vienna for Haus der Musik, Museum Judenplatz, Museum für angewandte Kunst and T-Mobile Austria, did cd-roms there for hilti and the walkabouts and developed interactive projections for events of Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft, departure and Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft
- developed websites at collettiva in Vienna for ERSTE Bank, Casinos Austria, an arcade game for the Viennale international film festival, helped with the technical setup of private exile, a production of Wiener Festwochen and developed a point of sales application for Burgtheater
- developed as a freelancer an application controlling the real time rendering of a tv signal for Kabel TV Wien/w24 which reads data from a cms and send commands to a vizrt rendering engine
- developed as a freelancer together with Christian Langreiter Carrier a wiki and blogging platform
- developed the frontends for various projects at System One - first for products like systemone, a wiki and knowledge management solution and radar, a news aggregating and filtering app. did client projects for customers like McKinsey & Company, Tomorrow Focus AG, Die Presse
- works part-time at bwin.party - first in the research & development department working on too many prototypes to list - mainly small web prototypes and some big search and simple classification problems, currently working in the mobile, touch and video department developing the user interface of mobile applications running on ios, android and the web (optimized for tablets) - working on the ui concept, coordinating design and development, doing quality assurance, lots of clicking, testing and tweaking of details
- works as a freelancer in cooperation with esteemed companions developing and designing mobile apps among others for VJU
- is used to do agile development in teams
Teaching
The rest
- likes food, beverages, living in big cities and enjoys having found some degree of work and life balance
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